'Boredom' might not be the right word.

I returned from my sabbatical to find half a dozen cases waiting for me exactly like those I've been healing for the last few months out in the Rice. I thought I had trained the students to know better...but my journey proved that it wasn't only civilians who are lacking in basic knowledge, but also our supposed 'allies'. If I have another meeting interupted because someone can't take care of their own children... And if our village still struggles with such basic concepts, can you imagine how poorly educated other villages must be?

Plus, I'm worried that there has been increasing suspicion cast on the Sound. As yet we are an unknown, but that will not last, and it is imperative that those in the five major villages do not see us as a threat while we stabilize our hold on the Rice. And it will be difficult to expand our...efforts into neighboring lands without their tacit approval of our 'charitable' works. Healers are welcome everywhere, and if that is all they think of us...well, we can capitalize on that.